Biography Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Jayne Milano was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 19th 1972. Seven years later, after seeing the Broadway play "Annie", she looked up to her parents and said: "I can do that". Her professional acting debut came one year later at age eight, in the role of "July" in the tour of the very same Tony-winning Broadway musical.

Her feature film debut came in 1983 when she appeared in the movie Old Enough.Wanting to get into television, because she hadnt done that before, she started auditioning for some TV pilots. She went in for the role of Samantha Micelli without having read any script for the show she would star on for so long, Who's the Boss?. Obviously she got the part. In no time she was acting alongside veterans like Tony Danza, famous for his part on Taxi, and Katherine Helmond, famous for her part on Soap.

She spent over a year playing the role on tour before returning to New York to appear off-Broadway in the first American musical adaptation of "Jane Eyre" at the Theater Opera Music Institute. She also appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's one-act play, "Tender Offer" at the New York Ensemble Theater, "All Night Long" at the Second Stage and "Warning Sigsbut in 1984 at age 11 as Samantha Micelli" in the ABC sitcom "Who's The Boss". It ran for eight years, in which time she won three Youth In Film awards for Best Supporting Actress Alyssa: "It was a great way to grow up, but I was sad to see it end. It's like graduating High School when you're sad and excited at the same time."

Alyssa returned to T.V. in her first regular series since "Who's the Boss?", on April 14th, 1997 when Alyssa joined the cast of Fox TV's "Melrose Place". She shot the last six episodes of the 1997 season. And in the 1998 season, she was a regular in all 33 episodes of the show. Alyssa played Jennifer Mancini, younger sister to Michael Mancini. Upon moving to Los Angeles from Boston, Jennifer started all kinds of trouble. She became Amanda's nemesis, Michael's partner in crime, and a lover to one of the characters!

Alyssa was last seen on the little screen last November as Denise Harris in "To Brave Alaska" , an ABC-TV movie. In the film, Denise and her boyfriend are abandoned in a desperate arctic wilderness and only her determination and strength saves their lives. The film was actually made in Vancouver BC, and Alberta , Canada, and filming it was no walk in the park. Alyssa had to skidoo (snowmobile) two miles each day to the set, and do underwater scenes in a giant water tank. Alyssa: "We had our costumes padded with heat packs, but it got so cold that I would lay on the dog (Newman) to keep warm."

Alyssa has also starred in the TV movies : "The Surrogate" (ABC), "Confessions Of A Sorority Girl" (ShowTime), "The Canterville Ghost" with Sir John Giulgud (BBC), "Driving School" (NBC), "Dance Till Dawn" (NBC), "Candles In The Dark" (Family Channel), and "Casualty Of Love (The Amy Fisher Story)" (CBS). In March, 1998 Alyssa starred in the Disney Original Telefilm "Gold Rush". on "The Wonderful World of Disney". In the telefilm, Alyssa played a young adventurer who set out during the Alaskan Gold Rush to discover her fortune. Alyssa is back on weekly as Phoebe Halliwell in the Spelling produced "Charmed" along side Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs Charmed aires every Wednesday night on the WB Network!

In 1995 Alyssa was in an episode of the tv sci-fi series "The Outer Limits" in which she played a young woman who comes into contact with an alien lifeform that turns her into a raging sex maniac. The episode was filmed in two versions, one for Cable tv with nudity and a tamer version for without the nudity. That episode with Alyssa reportedly had the highest ratings of any episode in the shows history.

In 1997 Alyssa starred in the Disney film "Gold Rush" and made her return to a full time tv series by joining the cast of "Melrose Place", starring as Jennifer Mancini, the younger sister of Michael Mancini. She was with the show for 2 seasons before leaving in September 1998.